Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner® (A-CSPO®)

Part 1: Product Owner Core Competencies

• The importance of the product ownership
• The mindset and Actions of a Product Owner
• Interacting with Stakeholders
• Product Owners as facilitators
• Facilitation techniques
• Facilitation of conversations with Stakeholders
• Understanding the risk of technical debt
• Understanding the importance of development practices
• Recognize approaches to scaling scrum
• Visualizing and reducing dependencies
• Benefits of Feature Teams

Part 2: Advanced Goal setting and planning

• Operationalizing Product Strategy
• Approaches to define product strategy
• Product Planning
• Visualizing and communication Strategy, ideas, and features

Part 3: Empathizing with Customers and Users

• Connecting Developers with Customers
• Customer product discovery techniques

Part 4: Advanced Product Assumption Validation

• Recognize cognitive biases
• Improving your Sprint Review
• Defining Hypotheses
• Planning how to test hypotheses
• Validating assumptions in Scrum

Part 5: Product Backlog Management

• Techniques for measuring value
• Techniques for ordering Product Backlogs
• Getting enough Product Backlog items ready
• Improving Product Backlog Refinement